A69234:900
Lectures upon the four first chapters of the prophecy of Hosea Wherein the text…Lectures vpon the foure first chapters of the prophecie of Hosea Wherein the text…
Lectures upon the four first chapters of the prophecy of Hosea Wherein the text is expounded and cleared, and such profitable instructions observed, and applied, as naturally arise out of this holy Scripture, and are fit for these times. By John Downame Bachelor in Divinity, and preacher of Gods word.Lectures vpon the foure first chapters of the prophecie of Hosea Wherein the text is exponded and cleered, and such profitable instructions obserued, and applied, as naturally arise out of this holie Scripture, and are fit for these times. By Iohn Dovvname Bacheler in Diuinitie, and preacher of Gods word.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston and T. East for William Welby, 1608
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The second sin whereof he accuseth them is, that they 1were without mercy; the word signifieth either benignity or beneficence, and in the former signification it is referred to the mind and hart, and so is called mercy and compassion; and in the latter to the words and works, and then it is called beneficence, and comprehendeth in it all works of charity and christianity: as when in our words we are ready to help and benefit our brethren by exhortation, counsel, consolation, admonition and reprehension: and in our works, by defending them with all our power, and relieving them with ⟨p. 57⟩our riches. Whereas therefore he chargeth them to be without mercy, his meaning is that they were destitute of all these virtues, and neglected all these christian duties; and contrariwise he implieth, that their minds were full of malice and cruelty, their words rotten and unsavoury, their works replenished with oppression, violence and barbarous inhumanity.
The second sinne whereof he accuseth them is, that they 1were without mercie; the word signifieth either benignitie or beneficence, and in the former signification it is referred to the minde and hart, and so is called mercy and compassion; and in the latter to the words and works, and then it is called beneficence, and comprehendeth in it all workes of charitie and christianitie: as when in our words we are ready to help and benefit our brethren by exhortation, counsaile, consolation, admonition and reprehension: and in our workes, by defending them with all our power, and relieuing them with ⟨p. 57⟩our riches. Whereas therefore he chargeth them to be without mercy, his meaning is that they were destitute of all these vertues, and neglected all these christian duties; and contrariwise he implyeth, that their minds were full of malice and cruelty, their words rotten and vnsauorie, their workes replenished with oppression, violence and barbarous inhumanitie.
- 1The second sin, that they wanted mercy.